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VS2008 and.NET Framework 3.5 propose a ton of customer value from Linq to Ajax and much more.  The service pack we have been acting on to round out out this release adds together still more newfangled value in addition to paying off a 100s of customer covered bugs!  All of it is driven by customer [...]

Also see: Spring Web Flow features and feedback request I’ve been putting off writing this blog, not just because I’m on vacation in Maui and have far more tempting things to do.  It’s because one of my blogs has already been used on Slashdot as evidence that Windows cannot scale and won’t support distributed transactions [...]

Also see: Load(AssemblyName) Also see: Startup, Shutdown and related matters Also see: Microformats are like RFID tags for the Web If you’ve yet to be sold on the Internet, grab a seat and your favorite pointing device. My good man Ryan sent me a link to what is undoubtedly the Internet’s Killer App: The Beer [...]

Also see: YouTube Tries to Get Legal Wired : At least i’m  not the only one that sees arena of video game fans as an interesting thing to write about. As a side note – is it arrogant to link to your own blog? http://www.simplegeek.com/permalink.aspx/74

Also see: A first stab at BaseN encoding with a focus on general alphabet encoding. Also see: A Couple of My Rules for Startups Also see: Interested in Artificial Intelligence? What about Wiki’s? Well, now you can have both. Just a note to myself to do a braindump on all this Service Broker shiznit I [...]

Previously in the blog section at TSS we presented a series on the issues related to Java concurrency, continuing with what is definitely a topic of interest given the emerging processor architectures in the industry, we present this post covering yet another series on the issues of Java concurrency. Also see: YouTube Tries to Get [...]

Also see: Merry Christmas Indeed! Also see: Life Calculus Also see: Aggregators rock! Since Doug mentioned me doing lots of GUI stuff, I thought I’d mention an interesting UI design book – About Face. It’s worth a read, although I think that Cooper goes a little bit far in saying that the “File” menu should [...]

I’m going to the Rose Bowl. I am a University of Illinois alum and an avid fan of college sports.  The Illini football team had a great season this year and will play USC in Pasadena on January 1st.  In fact, this is the just the second time in my lifetime that Illinois has made [...]

Also see: Finally, the Killer App At Mix08 , several people asked me about the possibility of creating a single source base for both WPF and Silverlight.  The scenario folks had in mind was to provide a reach solution with Silverlight that hits *ALL* possible users while also offering a really rich solutions for some [...]

Also see: AppDomains (“application domains”) I’ve uploaded a minor update to Snippet Compiler. I also put up an Add-Ins page with the following samples: Web References Folder Browser Settings ToolBar Snippet Repository http://weblogs.asp.net/jkey/archive/2006/01/29/436800.aspx